These
are my notes mostly for dances I have taught or lead since 2006. I wrote
the notes originally for my own reference then augmented and proofread
those of dances I lead for those who wanted them after the dance
sessions. Although it is unlikely that many other people will want
notes for these particular dances out of the tens of thousands of
Balkan etc. dances in circulation in the English-reading world, they
might be of use to someone so I've put copies on the WWW here.
There are not many dances here because I am not a regular dance leader, just a sort of very occasional stand-in.

Please
note that I did not invent these dances, I merely wrote down the steps
I learnt from others, and I may have made some mistakes. It is also
very likely that there are other versions of many of these dances and
even completely different dances with the same names so do not treat
these as definitive. The full notes are verbose & often include
multiple descriptions of the same steps; that is a deliberate attempt
to reduce the ambiguity from using normal text, rather than specialist
dance notation, to describe complex body movements.

Also note that is far better (& more fun) to learn dances by dancing them with someone who knows them than by reading notes!

Source Code

I did not write the notes directly in HTML as that would have
been too tedious to maintain. Instead I wrote them in a markup
language. The language is one I created just for this particular task
of writing Balkan etc. dance notes. It is basically plain text with
tags (each of which is a single character to speed up writing!)
denoting part, bar, count, summary, front matter, etc. blocks and
supporting nesting thereof. To convert it to the full & summary
HTML versions (and some others) I used a program I wrote in Perl for
the purpose.